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I take occasion to say that there have been probably twentyfive or thirty bills introduced in Congress within the last four years proposing the restriction of immigra.. tion through consular certificates. The subject which is opened up by this feature of the debate would require extensive discussion. I only wish now to say that the bill which was introduced by the Senator from Kansas . who served for a short time as a member of the Committee on Immigration. although he is not now a member of the committee. was a very carefully prepared bill. and one which. if it could be adopted into law. or if the main features of it could be adopted into law. would do a great deal to check the tide of undesirable immigration. I understand the Senator from Kansas to be in favor of checking immigration into this country. I have so understood him. and I trust I do not misstate his position when I term him a protectionist. that he is in favor of using the taxing power of the Government to exclude foreign products made by cheap labor. and is also in favor of using the police power of the Government to keep undesirable immigrants out of the country. . Mr. President. I think the tariff question and that of immigration are cognate subjects. although they are not exactly the same. and I have at times thought that in consequence of the suggestions of the Senator from N~braska Or. the